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George I. and Kate Rice received their education in the schools of their native state and there grew to manhood and womanhood. The former was born in 1841 and the latter in 1842, and they have spent their lives in the state of their nativity and are now living on the old home farm. They are the parents of nine children, three of whom came to Kansas: Anna Hirt, who resides in Cottage Hill township, Marshall county, where her husband is a farmer and influential man in the district; Alberta Arganbright is also a resident of Cottage Hill township, where Mr. Arganbright is engaged in general farming and stock raising, and Milo M., the subject of this sketch. The Rices have long been prominent in the social and religious life of the state of Pennsylvania and are active in the work of the Lutheran church.
Milo M. Rice received his education in the public schools of Pennsyl- vania and was reared on the home farm, where he lived until he was seven- teen years of age when in 1883 he started in work for himself. He came to Ohio that year, but remained there but two months, when he came to
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Kansas in June of the same year. Here he engaged as a farm hand and attended a teachers' institute, after which he taught school for one winter. He then rented two hundred and forty acres of land ; he later bought eighty acres, on which he has since resided, with the exception of three years that he lived at Baldwin, when he and his wife moved to give their children a better opportunity to obtain an education. His farm is one of the splendid tracts of land in the county and is nicely improved. The buildings are well kept and the fields are under a high state of cultivation. He always kept high-grade stock, which was among the best in the district. In 1906 he retired from the more active duties of farm life, yet he takes much interest in the management of his farm.
On February 7. 1886. Mr. Rice was united in marriage to Lura E. Clark, the daughter of James and Emma Clark, natives of Pennsylvania and the state of New York, respectively. They established their home in Illinois and later came to Kansas. Lura Ethel (Clark) Rice was born in Illinois, in Lee county, on October 2, 1867, where she received her early education and later came with her parents to Kansas. The father is now deceased and the mother is making her home at Baldwin with her son. William, who is a graduate of the Baker University and is now with the Baldwin State Bank. The Clarks moved to Baldwin in order to educate their children and there they lived for a number of years. They were people of high ideals and took the greatest interest in all educational mat- ters and were prominent in the community in which they lived and where they were held in the highest regard and esteem.
To Milo M. and Lura (Clark) Rice have been born the following children: George Clark, William Fletcher and Clarence Albert. George Clark was born on October 30. 1887, and after completing his education in the common schools entered Baker University, where he received his degree and is now a resident of Los Angeles, California, where he is a bookkeeper for the Williams Company : William Fletcher was born on December 9. 1888, and completed the common-school course and is a graduate of the Commer- cial Class of Baker University and is now a resident of California, and Clarence Albert was born on November 8. 1892, and is now engaged in farming on the home place, where he is in partnership with his father, in general farming and stock raising, and is meeting with much success.
The village of Cottage Hill is located on the farm of Milo M. Rice and he is known as the father of the village, he having been one of the earliest settlers in this community and had much to do with the foundation
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and growth of the place. He has always taken much interest in local affairs and has been much interested in the development of. the village, where he has had so many interests.
Politically, Mr. Rice is identified with the Republican party and has been one of the prominent men in the civic life of the district. In 1908 he was elected trustee of his home township and served in that capacity for eight years, when he declined re-election. During his term as trustee many substantial developments were made and his interests were ever for the good of the community in which he lived. The best schools and good roads received his utmost consideration, for in these he believed that the future of the township and the county largely depended.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice are active members of the Lutheran church and have always taken great interest in church work and are prominent in the social life of the community. Mr. Rice is one of the active members of the Modern Woodmen of America and to him is due much of the success of the local lodge. He is a man of pleasing qualities and has a wide influence throughout the county.
THOMAS MALONE.
Thomas Malone, one of the most successful of the younger farmers and stockmen of Richland township. Marshall county, was born in Rich- ardson county. Nebraska, on May 14, 1881, being the son of John R. and Mary M. ( Ashley) Malone. :
John R. Malone was born in Scioto county, Ohio, in 1843, and his wife was also a native of that county, having been born on November 9. 1849. John R. was the son of William Malone, also a native of Ohio and of Irish descent. Mrs. Malone was 'the daughter of Jeremiah and Useba (Conklin) Ashley, both of whom were natives of Ohio. On September 5, 1866, John R. Malone and Mary M. Ashley were united in marriage and soon after their marriage they left Ohio and established their home in the state of Nebraska, where they remained until 1881.
On August 6, 1863, John R. Malone enlisted in Company D, First Regi- ment Heavy Artillery of Ohio, and gave three years of his life to the cause of the Union. He received his honorable discharge at Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 20. 1865, after having seen much active service and had been in many of the hard-fought battles of the Civil War. After his discharge he returned to his former home in Scioto county, Ohio, where he was married
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within the next few months. With his bride he went to Richardson county. Nebraska, where he rented land and engaged in general farming and stock raising, with much success. In 1881 he and his family made the journey to Marshall county with horses and wagons and established their home in Richland township. There they resided on a farm east of Beattie for three years, after having lived in Richland township for two years. In 1886 Mr. Malone purchased the excellent farm in Richland township. that is now owned by the son, Thomas. This farm he developed into one of the best in the township and made several important improvements. The house was one of the best in the township and the barn was a substantial structure : these with the excellent condition of the farm, made the place one of the attractive homes of the county.
To John R. and Mary M. were born the following children: Dora, John. George, Richard, J. W., Ida, Harvey, Mary, Thomas, Eli, Susan, Alice and Harry. Dora is now deceased: John is a resident of Salina, Kansas; George is at home; Richard is a farmer near Axtell; J. W. is a resident of Apple Lane, Kansas: Ida, who was the wife of Ed Warner, is now deceased : Harvey is deceased; Mary is the wife of Charles Wolf and resides in Colorado: Thomas is the subject of this sketch : Eli is engaged in farming on a farm adjoining that of his brother. Thomas; Susan is the wife of Bert Wolf, of Denver, Colorado: Alice is the wife of Howard Shue and resides at Denver, Colorado, and Harry is on a farm one-half mile south of the farm home of his brother, Thomas.
John R. Malone lived on his farm in Richland township, until the time of his death on November 4, 1902. His life was an active one and he accomplished much in the years that he lived. He was a poor young man when he came to the new country in the West with his bride, and with her assistance he was able to surmount many of the difficulties which came his way. He devoted his best energies to his work, and by diligence and economy he in time became one of the prominent men of the township and county. He and his estimable wife were ever active in all the affairs of the community that would tend to the betterment of the moral. social and financial condition of the people. They were held in the highest regard and esteem, and were among the most worthy people of the district in which they lived for so many years.
Thomas Malone received his education in the district schools of Rich- land township and has lived on the present home farm, since he was but a lad. The older members of the family received their education in the schools of Beattie, before the family came to this township. After com-
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pleting his education he decided to engage in farm work and since that time has devoted his attention to high-grade farming and stock raising. He owns the old homestead consisting of two hundred and forty acres in section 26 and eighty acres in section 27, all of which is in a high state of culti- vation and well improved.
On November 30, 1913, Thomas Malone was united in marriage to Bertha Hostettler, daughter of Albert and Margaret Hostettler. Her parents were also natives of that country and there they received their education in the public schools, grew to maturity and they were later married . They continued to live in the land of their nativity until 1894, when the daughter, Bertha, was one year old, when they decided to seek a home in America. On their arrival in the United States they came to Kansas and after a resi- dence of three years at Herkimer, they located on a farm east of Home City, where they remained for a time, when they moved to their present home in Guittard township, where Mr. Hostettler is successfully engaged in general farming and the raising of good stock.
Thomas Malone is recognized as one of the progressive and substantial men of the township, where he has lived for so many years, and where he and his wife are held in the highest regard and esteem, and where they are prominent and active in the social life of the community. Mr. Malone is an independent in politics, yet he takes much interest in local affairs and uses his best efforts for the growth and development .of his home district.
HENRY F. DETWEILER.
Henry F. Detweiler, one of Murray township's substantial and pro- gressive farmers and the proprietor of a fine farm of two hundred and eighty acres in section 27 of that township, is a native of Illinois, but has been a resident of this county since he was seventeen years of age. He was born on a farm in Clay county, Illinois, March 31, 1866, son of Henry and Mary (Hillyer) Detweiler, the former a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1832, and the latter, of Ohio, born in 1842, who came to Kansas in 1883 and settled in Marshall county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, honored and influential pioneer citizens.
On coming to this county Henry Detweiler settled on a partly-improved farm six miles northwest of Axtell and there established a home for him- self and family. He developed the farm, making valuable improvements
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on the same, and there he and his wife spent their last days, his death occurring in 1898 and hers in April. 1907. He was the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of prime land. They were earnest members of the Christian church and their children were reared in that faith. They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom four sons and three daughters are still living, namely : P. L., of Mina, this county; O. B., of Wichita ; Henry F., the subject of this biographical sketch: Mrs. Anna Hawkins, of Topeka; Mrs. Belle Jackson, of Rice county, this state: Mrs. Stella Beason, of Montana, and H. A., a farmer, living one and one-half miles south of Axtell.
As noted above, Henry F. Detweiler was seventeen years of age when he came to this county with his parents and he completed his schooling in the district school in the neighborhood of his home. At the age of twenty- one he began farming on his own account and for some years, in partner- ship with one of his brothers, was engaged in farming on rented farms, being thus engaged for some years. He rented the John Montgomery farm northwest of Axtell. After his marriage in 1892 he began farming alone and in 1893 bought one hundred and sixty acres of the farm on which he is now living. The next year he established his home there and has ever since made that his place of residence, he and his wife being pleasantly and comfortably situated there. When Mr. Detweiler took possession of the place there were but few improvements on the same, including a little old house. He built a new house and farm buildings to match and has one of the best-equipped farm plants in that part of the county. In 1901 he bought an adjoining tract of one hundred and twenty acres and now has a well-developed and profitably cultivated farm of two hundred and eighty acres. His home is beautifully situated on a hillside, commanding a view of the country for miles about. The house is equipped with a modern heating and lighting system and the commodious barn and other farm build- ings are in keeping, everything being nicely arranged for comfort and con- venience. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Detweiler gives consid- erable attention to the raising of live stock and has done very well.
In the spring of 1892 Henry F. Detweiler was united in marriage to Agnes Wilson, who was born in Dubuque county, Iowa, daughter of James and Margaret Wilson, and who was visiting with her sister in this county when she met Mr. Detweiler, their marriage taking place shortly afterward. Mr. and Mrs. Detweiler are members of the Presbyterian church and take an earnest interest in the various beneficences of the same. Mr. Detweiler is a Democrat and ever gives his thoughtful attention to local political affairs,
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but has not been included in the office-seeking class. He is a member of the Masonic lodge at Axtell and of the local lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Security, and in the affairs of both of these organizations takes a warm interest. He and his wife have a very pleasant home and take a proper part in the general social activities of the community in which they live, helpful in promoting all worthy causes thereabout.
LYMAN H. ARMSTRONG.
Lyman H. Armstrong, president of the Bigelow State Bank at Bigelow, a substantial landowner and stock breeder, member of the Marshall County Fair Association and formerly and for years one of Marshall county's best- known school teachers, is a native of the great Empire state, but has been a resident of Kansas since 1884. He was born at Marcellus, in Onondaga county, New York, January 26, 1861, son of Addison H. and Adelia M. (Brown) Armstrong, the former of whom, born in Bennington county, Ver- mont, May 12, 1823, died at his home in New York in 1891, and the latter of whom, born on May 10, 1833, is still living at Marcellus, New York. AAddison H. Armstrong and wife were the parents of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth and five of whom are still living.
Reared on a farm in New York, Lyman H. Armstrong received his elementary schooling in the public schools and supplemented the same by a course in the Monroe College Institute, after which he began teaching school in his home county. When twenty years of age, in 1881, he went to Michigan and taught school near Union City, in that state. In 1884 he came to Kansas, his destination here being Frankfort, in this county, and for a year after his arrival here worked on the farm of T. F. Rhodes. He then taught district schools in this county until 1887, when he entered the State Normal School at Emporia and after a comprehensive course in that institution resumed teaching, in 1890, being employed as principal of the schools at Oketo. During the next two years he was employed as a teacher in the high school at Marysville and for two years thereafter as principal in the schools at Beattie. While at Beattie Mr. Armstrong bought his pres- ent farm of two hundred and forty acres in sections 3 and 15 of Bigelow township and began the development of the same, continuing his school work during the winters and spending his summers on the farm. In 1893
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he further enlarged his land holdings and ever since then has lived in and out of Bigelow. In 1904 Mr. Armstrong retired from the school room in order to give his whole attention to his rapidly developing agricultural and live stock interests. At the time of the organization of the Bigelow State Bank in 1907 Mr. Armstrong was one of the original stockholders and was elected vice-president of the same. Following the death of John E. Chitty, president of the bank, in 1911, he was elected to succeed Mr. Chitty, and has since been president of the bank, a position for which he is eminently qualified. In addition to the land holdings above mentioned Mr. Armstrong is the owner of an "eighty" of valuable land on the north edge of Bigelow and is regarded as one of the most substantial citizens of that part of the county.
Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat and ever since he came to this county in 1884 has taken an earnest and an active part in local civic affairs. For six years he served as township clerk in Clear Fork and in Bigelow town- ships and was the first clerk elected in the latter township after its organiza- tion. He also has taken an earnest interest in the agricultural development of the county and has rendered excellent service as a member of the Mar- shall County Fair Association. Fraternally, Mr. Armstrong is affiliated with the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America at Bigelow and is clerk of the same. Mr. Armstrong has a wide acquaintance in banking and general business circles throughout this part of the state and has long been recognized as one of the important personal factors in the development of the business life of the community.
ALFRED LINDEEN.
Alfred Lindeen, one of Lincoln township's well-known and substantial farmers and the owner of a fine farm home there, is a native of the kingdom of Sweden, but has been a resident of this country and of Marshall county since 1886. He was born on July 16, 1856, son of Gust Anderson and Anna Johnson, also natives of Sweden, who spent all their lives in their native land.
Reared on a farm in his native Sweden, Alfred Lindeen received his schooling there and grew to manhood on the home farm, becoming in turn a farmer on his own account, and there he remained until he was thirty years of age, when, in 1886, he came to the United States and proceeded on out to Kansas, locating at Frankfort, in this county. In that vicinity Mr.
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Lindeen, who had arrived in this country with very little money, secured employment at farm labor, at a wage of fifteen dollars a month, and for two years was thus engaged. He then rented a farm and for three years worked the same quite successfully. At the end of that time he bought eighty acres of the farm on which he is now living and, in the meantime having married in 1889, established his home there. Mr. Lindeen is a good farmer and as he prospered in his operations added to his land holdings until now he is the owner of two hundred acres of excellent land in Lincoln township, forty . acres in section 17, eighty acres in section 16 and eighty in section 28. He has a fine farm house and farm buildings in keeping with the same, his farm plant being operated along modern lines, and he is doing well. He has an excellent orchard on his place and in addition to his general farming devotes considerable attention to the raising of cattle, Shorthorns and Polled Angus, and Poland China hogs, the latter being of the white-spotted variety, a splendid type of big, rapid growers.
As noted above, it was in 1889, about three years after he came to this county, that Mr. Lindeen was married. His wife, Clara Back, is also a native of Sweden, born in 1859, who came to this country in 1887. To that union five children have been born, namely: Freda, wife of John Anderson, a farmer, living on section 15 of Lincoln township, this county; Eben, a farmer : Albin, who married Ellen Odell and lives at Axtell, and Emil and Albort, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Lindeen are members of the Swedish Lutheran (Solem) church, of which Mr. Lindeen has been a member of the board of trustees for twelve years and for five years a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a Republican and gives his earnest attention to local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office.
CALVIN WARNICA.
Calvin Warnica, one of Marshall county's substantial pioneer farmers and the proprietor of a fine farm in Vermillion township about three miles east of Frankfort, is a native of the Dominion of Canada, but has been a resident of this county since pioneer days, having come to Kansas with his mother, widow of a Civil War veteran, who came here from Michigan and became a Marshall county homesteader in 1873. He was born at Berry, near Toronto, July 20, 1853, sixth in order of birth of the seven children born to his parents, Joseph G. and Melvina (Denrure) Warnica, natives of
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New York state, the former of whom was of German descent, who had set- tled in Canada after their marriage. In a biographical sketch relating to William D. Warnica, elder brother of the subject of this sketch, presented elsewhere in this volume, there is set out at some length further details of the history of the Warnica family that will not need to be repeated in this connection, the attention of the reader being respectfully invited to that sketch for additional information. Suffice it to say that Joseph G. Warnica was a carpenter, who moved with his family from Canada to Michigan in 1857 and established his home in the vicinity of Grand Rapids, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of the Michigan Engineer Corps, in which service he lost his life. His older sons later came to Kansas and became pioneers of this part of the state. In 1873 the Widow Warnica and her three younger children, including the subject of this sketch, then twenty years of age, came to Kansas and homesteaded a tract of land five miles west of Frankfort, in this county, where she established her home and where she died three years later.
Calvin Warnica was but a child when his parents moved from Canada to Michigan and in the latter state grew to manhood. He was but ten years of age when his soldier father lost his life and as the older children grew up and started out for themselves he continued to stay with his mother and when she came here and entered her homestead he remained with him, help- ing to develop the same. He later homesteaded an eighty-acre tract of his own and after his marriage in 1876 established his home there, remaining there until in 1892, when he sold that place and bought his present farm in section 18 of Vermillion township, where he since has made his home. In addition to his home farm of one hundred and ninety-seven acres Mr. War- nica is the owner of a farm of two hundred and thirty-six acres in Morris county, this state.
In September 17, 1876, Calvin Warnica was united in marriage to Joan Osborn, who was born in Knox county, Illinois, October 4, 1856, daughter of Robert and Betsy (Roundtree) Osborn, natives of Kentucky, who came to. Kansas in the latter sixties and settled in this county, locating on the farm on which Mr. and Mrs. Warnica are now living. Robert Osborn becoming one of the substantial pioneers of that part of the county. Mr. Osborn died in 1893, at the age of seventy-one years, and his widow is now living at Frankfort at the age of ninety-two years. To Mr. and Mrs. Warnica ten children have been born, namely: George E., who was a soldier during the Spanish-American War, a member of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, Kansas
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Volunteer Infantry, and who is now living at Junction City, this state, where he is engaged as a carpenter : Oscar N., who died when thirty-one years of age : Robert A., who died at the age of four months ; Charles C .. a farmer of Vermillion township: Emma, who died at the age of fifteen months; Wini- fred, who married P. Skadden and is living in Wells township: Edna, wife of H. T. Harper, of Colorado; Walter R., who is engaged in the offices of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company at Topeka : Leroy, of Frankfort, this county, and Geneve R., a graduate of the Frankfort high, school, who is at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Warnica are mem- bers of the Christian church and have ever taken a warm interest in local good works. Mr. Warnica is a Republican, and ever since coming to Mar- shall county in the days of his young manhood has given his earnest atten- tion to local political affairs, a consistent exponent of good government.
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